Today is the first day back from my little foray into lethargy after the games. It was a wonderful week of laying around and gorging on fast food, but now it's time to get back to business. The next sixteen cycles will be spent performing a variation on the Black Box format, with a focus on gymnastic skills and cardio endurance. I won't be touching weights at all for the next 64 days. My goal is to get my bodyweight back under 165 lbs, drastically improve my running and rowing times, and make marked improvements in all bodyweight exercises. I started today, with the main page workout from Sunday 7/13.

I should have checked my last "Tabata Something Else" to better plan the pushups. I probably could have gotten a better tabata score and, possibly, a better total if I'd gamed it a little better. Run/squat time was slow; should have been running faster.

I'm mad about my metcon time. I got 5 reps into the set of 9 HSPU's and realized that my watch had stopped at 1:27. The stop button for my wrist watches stopwatch function is on the side of the watch facing my hand. It's a new watch and the button is apparently very sensitive. Suffice it to say, I had to switch the watch position and start over.

I do my trail running on the trails that run between Landing Road and the Hilton Area of Patapsco State Park in Elkridge, MD. My short course is to take the Cascade Trail from Landing Road down to the Ridge Trail and follow that down to the Hilton Area. I touch the pavement at the bottom of the trail and turn around and go back up. The distance is somewhere between 2 and 2.5 miles round trip. I need to get a pedometer to see what the exact distances are. The trails in that section of the park are considered some of the most challenging trails in the state by the local mountain biking community and no are no less so for running.

*hollow rock ups-basically a hollow rock into a sit up. I had originaly intended to do sit ups, but forgot to grab some dumbells for foot anchors. I started out with un anchored sit ups; during the 40 rep set I started kipping them, and they mutated into the hollow rock to situp during the course of the set.

Kind of ticked about that last set of box jumps. I had gamed for a Tabata score of 10, capping my sets at 12. I got a little lazy on the last set and had two missed reps, where I only landed one foot on the box. It messed up my rhythm and slowed me down enough to only allow me to do 8 reps.